Anyone know if Rod Action magazine is still in business? I went to the Buckaroo site and its been some time since it was updated.
rod action went out of b in 1998 or 1997 the editor john gobetti worked ofr goodguys gazette in 1998 1999 or so then went back to az. i do not think rod action was ever owned by buckaroo. maybe your think of another magazine???
buckaroo publishing, all ***les a joke, nothing ever on schedule, most expensive subscriptions out there and you never receive anything for your $, when is the last time you saw a issue of any of these American Rodder, Rodders Digest, Street Rod Builder, Super Rod, Truck Builder, etc. think i still have subs pending to some of them havent seen anything in ages - shamefull way to do business!
Rod Action was one of the poorest excuses for a car magazine ever , the fact they went out of business didn't surprise me at all
You must be refering to the last few years it was published. Back in the 70's it was as good as any of the other rod magazines. I've got every issue right up until it started going south. Frank
I have to agree with fab32, Rod Action was one of my favorites all through the seventies up to to the point that Eric Peirce left in the late eighties. Always had lots of good tech and a definite "low bucks" leaning, when the others were reaching higher and higher($). What Buckeroo did to American Rodder however, should be punishable by law! Rodders Digest as well!
actually , i thought they ****ed all along. they had some of the ****piest photography and layouts of feature cars. they would show you 5 pictures of a car all from they same angle , or they would show the same picture twice....one in color and one in black and white. that was real helpful. they would tell you about some neat feature of the car in the text , then never show you a picture of it. many times they would get facts about a car all wrong , and it was obvious by looking at the pictures. i do have to admit the tech articles was ok sometimes just my 2 cents
Wow, Rod Action...I have about 100 copies or more from the 70's...just a bad mag. I put them in a box in the attic waiting for that day when someone will want them. Lucky for me I'm still in my 30's.
Might want to PM HenryJGuy. I'm pretty sure he works for Buckaroo. He PM'ed a while back. He had seen my car at a show and wanted to photograph it. Never heard anything else out of him though.
as i understand roder digest and american rodder have been stopped , bad economy, buckarro id feeling the effects of a bad economy, anyways rod& custom has a real editor now show we have hope for a cool magazine coming up soon
Uh, Kevin Lee is the editor for Rod & Custom and has been for quite a while now, and I think it has been a good mag for that period.
I kinda dug Rod Action back in the 70s and 80s. Granted it wasn't as slick as some of the stuff that's out there today, but in their own way, they did some good work. It wasn't like it is now, with car mags filling a whole section at Books A Million. There was Street Rodder, Rod Action, and sometimes Rod & Custom covering the older cars, and not much else to choose from if you weren't wigged out by Camaros and a monthly bore-a-thon on how to build your small block Chevy.
I kind of liked Rod Action magazine as well. There was a column "Young Guns", that my daughter sent a picture and write-up of her and her truck, and it was published; very cool for her, even 14 years later.
Rod Action Magazine was as good as Street Rodder & Rod & Custom back in the 70's when Tex Smith was the editor, great magazine, good non bias at***ude, same with Rodders Digest till those Buckeroo *******s got hold of it......I even renewed a subscription for it early last year, 2008, just after the last issue came out, those Buckeroo s*** took my 120.00 for an Oz subscription and I haven't seen ONE issue, the *******s don't answer emails or phones.......I hope they rot in a jap car dealership..........am not vindictive but a slow painful death would do those ****heads a world of good........Andy Douglas
Hey Dodge, you sure nailed it in reference to Tex Smith and his staff. Thanks for bringing that up. Was Rodders Digest originally owned and edited by a guy from North Carolina? Seems like I used to see his booth at shows and swapmeets around the Carolinas. Could be wrong...that was over 20 years ago. lol
I liked Rod Action back in the 70s. They had tech articles for the home builder and not merely paid infomercials for their advertisers. I built the T frame with the blueprints from their magazine in my garage. I felt that the magazine was written for rodders and not check writers by rodders and not salesmen. JMHO
rodders digest was owned by gerry burger, steve ???? he p***ed away and gary mcwhirter, gerry burger works for buckaroo and was the editor for awhile. we wll see if buckaroo will survive the obama economic nightmare
Well that ****s! Kevin is a great guy, a real hot rodder and a good editor. I know he took some time off 'cuz of the new baby and his name was still on the header in the November issue, so I figured he was still there. Unfortunate!
Back in the 80's (and in high school) my friends thought Rod Action was a gay man's **** mag. So I never bought it much.
The recapped version of R@C under Pat Ganahl was a good read, even if he was a little ****y on Chebbys. It covered a lot of ground, and then he was lifted up in a chariot or something, and it became an ad mag. Blarmey. The only saving grace after he left was Baskerville, a true prince amoung rodders, and salt of the flat earth. The Golden Age of magazines died when the net took over and handed the covering of events, and detailing builds and showing neat new stuff to the Everyman. Now we have the HAMB, where we all can play editor and writer and photographer. And, the religion is all the better for it. All praise Ryan. Amen.
Rod Action was a good mag it had a bit of a different outlook with Tex Smith and his Walter P Chrysler project etc.,didnt J Neil East contribute too?,i wonder if the S.L.A. [Studebaker Lovers ***ociation] is still active ,then there was Mary Swellheart ,Dirty Daniel and Brian Brave ,the paper quality hasnt aged well though,,
I wrote a few tech articles for Rod Action in its last two years. Owner was more into old plane magazines and rod action suffered due to it
I enjoyed all of them in the 70's. But I'm bios. Tex Smith is a friend and the late Joe Mayall did an article on my coupe in 1977 when he was editor, before he moved over to Street Scene and NSRA.
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